... Could you please give us an ETA on when crafting will be accessible to the Klingons, if ever? Has it even been considered? ...

It has been discussed and considered. Now that we have the back end for item requirements and crafting progression working properly - we want to expand it so that Klingons can use it, I just don't have a valid ETA for this yet as the designer who did the majority of this last revamp is now knee deep in the diplomacy system.

Another thing we want to get to the Klingon faction is "commodity" type missions for Klingon Faction players ...

We want to see those types of gameplay (anomalies, crafting, and trading) come to the Klingon Faction.

While I don't have a definite date for you - I could easily see this happening by the time Season 3 starts if not before.